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Personal Identity

Christian Materialism

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1. Introduction
   • Thesis Text:
     1. This Note focuses on those philosophers who profess both some form of Christianity and some form of materialism², though it also lists those other philosophers associated in one way or another with the philosophy of Personal Identity who have professed Christian faith.
     2. The form of materialism³ I have in mind is that we human beings consist wholly of matter⁴, without the need to posit a soul⁵ to ensure our post-mortem survival⁶ and, in particular, our posited resurrection⁷.
     3. I will also discuss those Christian philosophers who are dualists or hold other non-materialist accounts of human identity, and who resist Christian Materialism⁸.
     4. Obviously, no Christian with any claim to orthodoxy believes that all persons⁹ are essentially¹⁰ embodied – as God is, and presumably angels are, taken to be persons and immaterial.
     5. I also suppose that Christians may differ as to what they think of as the intermediate state between death¹¹ and resurrection¹² (ignoring those that think that the future state is incorporeal¹³).
     6. They may also differ as to whether they think matter requires animating¹⁴ by the breath of the Spirit in a literal sense.
     7. Lists of Christian Materialists and Related Philosophers
        • Christian Materialists:-
          1. Lynne Rudder Baker
          2. Kevin Corcoran
          3. Hud Hudson
          4. David Hershenov
          5. Trenton Merricks
          6. Nancey Murphy
          7. Peter Van Inwagen
             
        • Non-Materialist Contemporary Christian Philosophers who seriously consider Materialism:-
          1. Thomas Atkinson has written a PhD Thesis denying that Animalism is consistent with post-mortem survival, as an attack on Christian physicalism. Central to my concerns. See:-
             → "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism"
          2. Dean Zimmerman: While Zimmerman is a dualist, his most interesting works from my perspective provide a defense of Resurrection¹⁵ on the materialist presuppositions.
             
   • Further Remarks
     1. This Note – or those related to it – may become more important in due course, as it might be an alternative focus for my Thesis.
     2. Currently, the reading lists for both this Note and that for Religion¹⁶ appear below. I will segregate them in due course.
     3. Some Comments
        1. Lynne Rudder Baker: Works by, or about, Lynne Rudder Baker are mostly covered in my Note on Baker¹⁷. A selection appears below.
        2. Kevin Corcoran is very much a supporter of Lynne Rudder Baker.
        3. David Hershenov: most of his papers are relevant, but are not explicitly listed below.
        4. Nancey Murphy is only the (co-)editor of two of the books listed below, and many / most of the contributors will have Christian affiliation of some sort (probably Catholic). However, I have not listed the other contributors / editors directly unless they are otherwise well-known (to me). I have, however, listed Murphy’s contributions to the edited collections.
        5. Alvin Plantinga: The list of relevant works is to be completed once I’ve gone through Alvin Plantinga: Works (maintained by Andrew Bailey).
        6. Peter Van Inwagen: There are so many potentially-relevant papers by Van Inwagen that I’ve had to decide whether to list them all or only some … “All” is more useful, without repeating those in Van Inwagen’s books listed – except from anthologies edited by Van Inwagen.
           
2. Works
   • Relevant Works cited above:
     1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
     2. "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read
     3. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Twenty Years Worth of the SCP", 1998, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read
   • For a Page of Links¹⁸ to this Note, Click here.
   • Not withstanding whatever I might have said above, the reading lists below ought to be restricted to works related to what we are¹⁹ or to life after death²⁰ (or at least supportive of the authors’ positions on these themes).
   • I note here that the methodology of segregating these works doesn’t currently work correctly when carried forward to Chapter 07 of my Thesis²¹.
   • Works on this topic that I’ve actually read²², include the following:-
     1. Christian Materialists:
        • Lynne Rudder Baker:
          1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Christians Should Reject Mind-Body Dualism", 2004, Annotations
          2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face", 2001, Write-Up Note²³, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", 2000, Book
          5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What Am I?", 1999, Write-Up Note²⁴, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₅
          6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
        • Kevin Corcoran:
          1. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
        • Hud Hudson:
          1. "Carter (William) - 'Partist' Resistance to the Many: Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Hudson (Hud) - Hyperspace and Christianity", 2008
          3. "Hudson (Hud) - Multiple Location and Single Location Resurrection", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
        • Trenton Merricks:
          1. "Merricks (Trenton) - Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Merricks (Trenton) - On Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
        • Nancey Murphy:
          1. "Murphy (Nancey) - I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
        • Peter Van Inwagen:
          1. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem?", 1995, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity", 1994, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Philosophers and the Words 'Human Body'", 1980, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Plantinga’s Replacement Argument", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          6. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Précis of Material Beings", 1993, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
     2. Christian Non-Materialists:
        • Thomas Atkinson:
          1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Material Beings and the Metaphysics of the Resurrection", 2014, Internal PDF Link
        • E.J. Lowe:
          1. "Lowe (E.J.) - Locke: Identity", 1995, Write-Up Note²⁶, Annotations
        • David Oderberg:
          1. "Oderberg (David) - Johnston on Human Beings", 1989, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
        • Alvin Plantinga:
          1. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Twenty Years Worth of the SCP", 1998, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
        • Philip L. Quinn:
          1. "Quinn (Philip L.) - Review of Antony Flew's 'The Logic of Mortality'", 1992, Internal PDF Link
        • Michael Rea:
          1. "Rea (Michael) - Material Constitution: Preface, Introduction & Appendix (A Formal Statement of the Problem)", 1997, No Abstract
        • Dean Zimmerman:
          1. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Christians Should Affirm Mind-Body Dualism", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Problems for Animalism", 2008, Write-Up Note²⁷, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Reply to Baker's 'Christians Should Reject Mind-Body Dualism'", 2004, Annotations
          5. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Can We Survive Our Death?", 2015
          6. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Does God Know Our First-Person Perspectives?", 2015
        • Other:
          1. "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?", 2014, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
   • A further reading list might start with:-
     1. Christian Materialists:
        • Lynne Rudder Baker:
          1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Christian Materialism in a Scientific Age", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
          2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Death and the Afterlife", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 81%
          3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Need a Christian be a Mind/Body Dualist?", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism", 1987, Book
          5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Does a Person Begin?", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
          6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) & Matthews (Gareth B.) - Anselm’s Argument Reconsidered", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
        • Kevin Corcoran:
          1. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Constitution, Resurrection, and Relationality", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
          2. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          3. "Corcoran (Kevin) - I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come", 2006, Read = 13%
          4. "Corcoran (Kevin) - I'm No Soul, Man: a Response to Baltimore", 2006, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Persons, Bodies and the Constitution Relation", 1999
          6. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Physical Persons and Postmortem Survival Without Temporal Gaps", 2001
          7. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul", 2006, Book, Read = 13%
          8. "Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. - Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 103%
        • Hud Hudson:
          1. "Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person", 2001, Book, Read = 2%
          2. "Hudson (Hud) - I am Not an Animal!", 2007, Read = 11%
          3. "Hudson (Hud) - Nothing But Dust and Ashes", 2001
          4. "Hudson (Hud) - On Constitution and All-Fusions", 2000, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Hudson (Hud) - Temporal Parts and Moral Personhood", 1999
          6. "Hudson (Hud) - The Metaphysics of Hyperspace", 2008, Book, Read = 10%
        • Trenton Merricks:
          1. "Merricks (Trenton) - A New Objection To A Priori Arguments for Dualism", 1994, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          2. "Merricks (Trenton) - Composition and Vagueness", 2005, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Merricks (Trenton) - Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Counterpart Theory", 1999, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Merricks (Trenton) - Endurance and Indiscernibility", 1994, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Merricks (Trenton) - Endurance, Psychological Continuity, and the Importance of Personal Identity", 1999
          6. "Merricks (Trenton) - Fission and Personal Identity Over Time", 1997, Internal PDF Link
          7. "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", 2001
          8. "Merricks (Trenton) - No Statues", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
          9. "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 7%
          10. "Merricks (Trenton) - On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities", 1996, Internal PDF Link
          11. "Merricks (Trenton) - Perdurance and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
          12. "Merricks (Trenton) - Persistence, Parts and Presentism", 1999
          13. "Merricks (Trenton) - Precis of Objects and Persons", 2003, Internal PDF Link
          14. "Merricks (Trenton) - Realism About Personal Identity Over Time", 2001, Internal PDF Link
          15. "Merricks (Trenton) - Replies (Book Symposium on Objects and Persons)", 2003
          16. "Merricks (Trenton) - The Resurrection of the Body", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          17. "Merricks (Trenton) - The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation", 2007, Read = 6%
          18. "Merricks (Trenton) - There Are No Criteria For Identity Over Time", 1998, Internal PDF Link
        • Nancey Murphy:
          1. "Brown (Warren), Murphy (Nancey) & Malony (H. Newton), Eds. - Whatever Happened to the Soul: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature", 1998, Book, Read = 4%
          2. "Murphy (Nancey) - Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?", 2006, Book, Read = 12%
          3. "Murphy (Nancey) - Human Nature: Historical, Scientific and Religious Issues", 1998, Read = 4%
          4. "Murphy (Nancey) - Non-Reductive Physicalism: Philosophical Issues", 1998, Read = 6%
          5. "Murphy (Nancey) - Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action", 2000, External Link
          6. "Russell (Robert John), Murphy (Nancey), Meyering (Theo C.), Arbib (Michael A.) - Neuroscience and the Person", 2000, Book, Read = 1%
        • Peter Van Inwagen:
          1. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - ‘I am Elizabeth Anscombe’ is Not an Identity Proposition", 2001, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - A Materialist Ontology of the Human Person", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
          3. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - And Yet There Are Not Three Gods But One God", 1988, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
          5. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Can Mereological Sums Change their Parts", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
          6. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence, Ontological Commitment and Fictional Entities", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
          7. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Four-Dimensional Objects", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
          8. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Human Destiny", 2005, Internal PDF Link
          9. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings", 1995, Book, Read = 27%
          10. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Metaphysics", 2008, Book, Read = 17%
          11. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics", 2001, Book, Read = 17%
          12. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies", 2014, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
          13. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Number of Things", 2002, Internal PDF Link
          14. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Possibility of Resurrection", 1978, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 111%
          15. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Self: the Incredulous Stare Articulated", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
          16. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - What Do We Refer to When We Say 'I'?", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          17. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - When are Objects Parts?", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 12%
          18. "Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Metaphysics: The Big Questions", 2000, Book, Read = 17%
          19. "Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Persons: Human and Divine", 2007, Book, Read = 3%
     2. Christian Non-Materialists:
        • Thomas Atkinson:
          1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - A Reply to Anders’ ‘Mind, Mortality and Material Being: van Inwagen and the Dilemma of Material Survival of Death’", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
          2. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Conceivability, Possibility and the Resurrection of Material Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
          3. "Atkinson (Thomas) - The Resurrection of Material Beings - Recomposition, Compaction and Miracles", 2016?, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
        • William Hasker:
          1. "Hasker (William) - Afterlife", 2005-10, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
          2. "Hasker (William) - Minds and Bodies", 1983
          3. "Hasker (William) - Persons as Emergent Substances", 2001
        • E.J. Lowe:
          1. "Lowe (E.J.) - Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
          2. "Lowe (E.J.) - Entity, Identity and Unity", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self", 2001
          4. "Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms", 1989, Book
          5. "Lowe (E.J.) - Material Coincidence and the Cinematographic Fallacy: A Response to Olson", 2002, Internal PDF Link
          6. "Lowe (E.J.) - Minds, Bodies and People", 2000, No Abstract
          7. "Lowe (E.J.) - Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism and the Problem of Mental Causation", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
          8. "Lowe (E.J.) - Objects and Criteria of Identity", 2001, Read = 61%
          9. "Lowe (E.J.) - Objects and Identity", 2001
          10. "Lowe (E.J.) - On the Alleged Necessity of True Identity Statements", 1982, Internal PDF Link
          11. "Lowe (E.J.) - On the Identity of Artifacts", 1983, Internal PDF Link
          12. "Lowe (E.J.) - Persistence and Substance", 2001
          13. "Lowe (E.J.) - Personal Identity and Self-Knowledge", 2000, No Abstract
          14. "Lowe (E.J.) - Persons and Their Bodies", 1989
          15. "Lowe (E.J.) - Real Selves: Persons as a Substantial Kind", 1991
          16. "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Noonan's 'Personal Identity'", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
          17. "Lowe (E.J.) - Self, Reference and Self-reference", 1993
          18. "Lowe (E.J.) - Sortal terms and absolute identity", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
          19. "Lowe (E.J.) - Subjects of Experience", 1996, Book, Read = 3%
          20. "Lowe (E.J.) - Substance and Selfhood", 1991, Internal PDF Link
          21. "Lowe (E.J.) - Substance, Identity and Time", 1988
          22. "Lowe (E.J.) - Substantial Change and Spatiotemporal Coincidence", 2002
          23. "Lowe (E.J.) - The Paradox of the 1,001 Cats", 1982, Internal PDF Link
          24. "Lowe (E.J.) - The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity and Time", 2001, Book
          25. "Lowe (E.J.) - The Problems of the Many and the Vagueness of Constitution", 1995
          26. "Lowe (E.J.) - What Is a Criterion Of Identity?", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
        • J.P. Moreland:
          1. "Moreland (J.P.) - Locke's Parity Thesis about Thinking Matter: A Response to Williams", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Moreland (J.P.) - Review of Hud Hudson 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person'", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          3. "Moreland (J.P.) & Craig (William Lane) - Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview: Metaphysics", 2003
          4. "Moreland (J.P.) & Rae (Scott) - Body & Soul - Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics", 2000, Book, Read = 11%
        • David Oderberg:
          1. "Oderberg (David) - Coincidence Under a Sortal", 1996, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Oderberg (David) - Could There Be a Superhuman Species?", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
          3. "Oderberg (David) - Hylemorphic Dualism", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₈
          4. "Oderberg (David) - Modal Properties, Moral Status, and Identity", 1997, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Oderberg (David) - Persistence", 2009, Internal PDF Link
          6. "Oderberg (David) - Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
          7. "Oderberg (David) - Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 12%
          8. "Oderberg (David) - Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change", 2004, Internal PDF Link
          9. "Oderberg (David) - The Beginning of Existence", 2003, Internal PDF Link
          10. "Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
          11. "Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time", 1993, Book, Read = 3%
          12. "Oderberg (David) - The Origination of a Human Being - Rejoinder to Persson", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
          13. "Oderberg (David) - Voluntary Euthanasia and Justice", 1997
          14. "Oderberg (David) & Laing (Jacqueline) - Human lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics", Book, Footnote₂₉
        • Alvin Plantinga:
          1. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Against Materialism", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
          2. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Christian Philosophy At The End Of The 20th Century", 1995, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
          3. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Materialism and Christian Belief", 2007, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Plantinga (Alvin) - On Mereological Essentialism", 1975, Internal PDF Link
        • Philip L. Quinn:
          1. "Quinn (Philip L.) - On the Intrinsic Value of Human Persons", 2007, Read = 5%
          2. "Quinn (Philip L.) - Tiny Selves: Chisholm on the Simplicity of the Soul", 1997
        • Michael Rea:
          1. "Murray (Michael J.) & Rea (Michael) - Mind, body, and immortality", 2008, No Abstract
          2. "Rea (Michael) - Constitution and Kind Membership", 2000
          3. "Rea (Michael) - Four-Dimensionalism", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
          4. "Rea (Michael) - In Defense of Mereological Universalism", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Rea (Michael) - Lynne Baker on Material Constitution", 2002
          6. "Rea (Michael) - Supervenience and Co-Location", 1997
          7. "Rea (Michael) - Temporal Parts Unmotivated", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          8. "Rea (Michael) - The Problem of Material Constitution", 1995, Internal PDF Link
          9. "Rea (Michael) & Silver (David) - Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity", 2000, Internal PDF Link
          10. "Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader", 1997, Book, Read = 41%
        • Richard Swinburne:
          1. "Swinburne (Richard) - Discussion of Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness and Value", 1992, Internal PDF Link
          2. "Swinburne (Richard) - From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism", 2007
          3. "Swinburne (Richard) - Personal Identity", 1974, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Swinburne (Richard) - Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory", 1984, Write-Up Note³⁰, Read = 19%
          5. "Swinburne (Richard) - Reply to Shoemaker", 1984, No Abstract
          6. "Swinburne (Richard) - Response to Derek Parfit", 2000, External Link, Read = 67%
          7. "Swinburne (Richard) - Review of Robert Nozick's 'Philosophical Explanations'", 1983, No Abstract
          8. "Swinburne (Richard) - The Evolution of the Soul", 1997, Book
          9. "Swinburne (Richard) - The Structure of the Soul", 1987
        • Charles Taliaferro:
          1. "Meister (Chad) & Taliaferro (Charles) - Neuroscience and the Soul - Philosophical Issues: Introduction", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 167%
          2. "Taliaferro (Charles) - Emergentism and Consciousness: Going Beyond Property Dualism", 2001
          3. "Taliaferro (Charles) - Pollock's Body-Switching", 1986, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Taliaferro (Charles) - Review of Persons: Human and Divine by Peter van Inwagen & Dean Zimmerman", 2008, Internal PDF Link
        • Dean Zimmerman:
          1. "Sider (Ted) & Zimmerman (Dean) - Persistence Seminar", 2004, Book, Read = 3%
          2. "Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean) - What Is Our Place In the World?", 2000, No Abstract
          3. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Can One “Take Tense Seriously” and Be a B-theorist?", 2006, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
          4. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Coincident Objects: Could a ‘Stuff Ontology’ Help?", 1997, Internal PDF Link
          5. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts? An Argument For 'Atomless Gunk'", 1996, Internal PDF Link
          6. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics'", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          7. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory", 2000, No Abstract
          8. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory", 1997, Internal PDF Link
          9. "Zimmerman (Dean) - From Experience to Experiencer", 2011, Internal PDF Link
          10. "Zimmerman (Dean) - From Property Dualism to Substance Dualism", 2010, Internal PDF Link
          11. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Immanent Causation", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
          12. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Material People", 2003, Internal PDF Link
          13. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Materialism, Dualism, and “Simple” Theories of Personal Identity", 2012, Internal PDF Link
          14. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Persistence and Presentism", 1996, Internal PDF Link
          15. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Personal Identity and the Survival of Death", 2015, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
          16. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology?", 2002
          17. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Persons: Human and Divine - Three Introductory Questions", 2007, Read = 20%
          18. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Properties, Minds, and Bodies: An Examination of Sydney Shoemaker's Metaphysics", 2009, Internal PDF Link
          19. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Review of Heller's 'The Ontology of Physical Objects'", 1993, No Abstract
          20. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Review of Hoffman & Rosenkrantz's 'Substance: Its Nature and Existence'", 1999, Internal PDF Link
          21. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines", 1998, Internal PDF Link
          22. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism", 2000, Internal PDF Link
          23. "Zimmerman (Dean) - The A-Theory of Time, The B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’", 2005, Internal PDF Link
          24. "Zimmerman (Dean) - The Constitution of Persons by Bodies: A Critique of Lynne Rudder Baker’s Theory of Material Constitution", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
          25. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution", 1995, Internal PDF Link
          26. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: The Metaphysics of Time & God", 2015, External Link, Read = 11%
        • Other:
          1. "Adams (Robert Merrihew) - Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity", 1979, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
          2. "Alston (William) & Bennett (Jonathan) - Locke on People and Substances", 1988, Internal PDF Link
          3. "Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate", 2000, Book, Read = 23%
          4. "Leftow (Brian) - Souls Dipped in Dust", 2001
3. For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
   1. Read: No items to list.
   2. Further Reading: No items to list.
4. This is a place-holder³¹.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 25:

• See Draft Note, Review Comments.

Footnote 28:

• This (rather than hylomorphic) is the chosen spelling!

Footnote 29:

• I’ve not bought the book as it is too expensive!

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
02/03/2026 07:17:10	None available	Resurrection

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animation	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - What Am I?
Death	Disembodied Existence	Essentialism	Hylomorphism	Jen_080317 (Baker)
Life After Death	Lowe - Locke on Identity	Matter	Note Links Explanation	Person
Physicalism	Plug Note Apologia	Religion	Resurrection	Souls
Survival	Swinburne - Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	What are We?	Works Read - Explanation
Zimmerman - The Human Animal: Objections

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Animation	Baker	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face, 2	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Corpses
Dualism	Naturalism	Olson - Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Olson - What Are We?	Olson - What Are We? Animals
Physical Continuity	Physicalism	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Religion, 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)
Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance, 2	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Website - Progress to Date (2026 - March), 2	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Alma (Sam)	The problem of erring animals	Paper		Yes
Atkinson (Thomas)	N/A	Author
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	N/A	Author
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Christian Materialism in a Scientific Age	Paper	2, 3
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Embryos and Stem­Cell Research	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Beilby (James), Ed.	Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism	Book
Bruntrup (Godehard)	Soul, Body and Survival: The Renaissance of Christian Materialism	Paper
Corcoran (Kevin)	Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival	Paper
Corcoran (Kevin)	I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come	Paper	2
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book	2
De Monticelli (Roberta)	For Lynne Rudder Baker (1944-2017)	Paper
Gasser (Georg)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Hart (David Bentley)	Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong	Paper		Yes
Hudson (Hud)	Nothing But Dust and Ashes	Paper
Lim (Joungbin)	Various Papers	Paper
Moreland (J.P.)	Review of Hud Hudson 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person'	Paper
Oderberg (David)	Life makes mistakes	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We?	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke	Paper		Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Corpses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dualism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Naturalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physical Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physicalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Religion	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem?	Paper	2	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter) & Zimmerman (Dean)	Persons: Human and Divine	Book	2
Ward (Keith)	Review - Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe	Paper		Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited	Paper	2	Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Video: Can We Survive Our Death?	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Alma (Sam)	The problem of erring animals	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 24 June 2024	Yes
Atkinson (Thomas)	Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism	Paper - Cited	PhD thesis, University of Liverpool Website, August 2017	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Christian Materialism in a Scientific Age	Paper - Cited	International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 69(1):1–12, 2011	8%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Christians Should Reject Mind-Body Dualism	Paper - Cited	Peterson (Michael) & Van Arragon (Raymond) - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, 2004	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection	Paper - Cited	Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001): 151-167	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper - Cited	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 10	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper - Referencing	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 10	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism	0%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	What Am I?	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p151, 9p;	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper - Cited	Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5, 2005	Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies: Vol. 170, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 465-500	Yes
Carter (William)	'Partist' Resistance to the Many: Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 68, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 713-723	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	99%
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	99%
Gasser (Georg)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction	Paper - Referencing	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes
Gasser (Georg), Ed.	Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	96%
Gasser (Georg), Ed.	Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	96%
Hudson (Hud)	Hyperspace and Christianity	Paper - Cited	Hudson (Hud) - The Metaphysics of Hyperspace, Chapter 8	Yes
Hudson (Hud)	Multiple Location and Single Location Resurrection	Paper - Cited	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes
Hudson (Hud)	The Metaphysics of Hyperspace	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	10%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Merricks (Trenton)	Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience	Paper - Cited	Mind - 107/425 (January 1998)	Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	On Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic	Paper - Cited	Mind, 107, Number 428, October 1998, pp. 845-846	Yes
Murphy (Nancey)	I Cerebrate Myself: Is there a little man inside your brain?	Paper - Cited	Books and Culture 5/1 (Jan-Feb 1999), p. 24	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Paper - Referencing	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper - Referencing	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 2, Chapter 19, 2015: 409-423	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Peterson (Michael) & VanArragon (Raymond)	Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	13%
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	73%
Plantinga (Alvin)	Twenty Years Worth of the SCP	Paper - Cited	Faith and Philosophy 15: 151-155, 1998	Yes
Sainsbury (Mark), Ed.	Mind - 107/425 (January 1998)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	10%
Sainsbury (Mark), Ed.	Mind - 107/428 (October 1998)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	4%
Thompson (Jon W.)	Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke	Paper - Referencing	American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 2, Spring 2021; Pages 165-194.	Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper - Referencing	Faraday Institute On-Line Seminar: January 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem?	Paper - Cited	Faith and Philosophy 12: 475-88, 1995	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come	Paper - Cited	Van Inwagen's website	Yes
Ward (Keith)	Review - Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe	Paper - Referencing	The Church Times, 12 January 2024	Yes
Zimmerman (Dean)	Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited	Paper - Referencing	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes

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